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I love being a member of KISS.
I tend to fly a bit under the radar.
I live in the house bad reviews built.
Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.
The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!
Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.
It's a really special night for our fans. It's vindication.
Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.
When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.
Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.
We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.
If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.
Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.
The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.
Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.
Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.
I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.
If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.
Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.
There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.
I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.
I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.
I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.
I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.
There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army.
America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does... I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.
The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own limitations, and those are no limitations.
Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'
You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.
I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.
Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans.
I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!
We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.
I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.
The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle.